A HISTORICAL CONSIDERATION: OF THE TERM “PSYCHOLOGISM”

Abstract

Even though countless books and articles have been written on the controversy surrounding psychologism, there is no clarity to date concerning the concept of psychologism itself. For this reason, and as a first step towards achieving a consensual definition, we intend in the following lines to study the history of the term “psychologism”, identifying its oscillations and demonstrating the falsity of many habitual statements regarding the topic.